Port Quotes - Page 5

• Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  God, Heaven, May

  Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry) (1867). “The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry”, p.50

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• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  Salman Khurshid

  Country, Exercise, Training

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• About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.

  Earl Nightingale

  Successful, Wind, People

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• Some gifted adventurer is always sailing round the world of art and science, to bring home costly merchandise from every port.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Art, Home, Science

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

  Dianne Feinstein

  America, Holes, Homeland Security

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• I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'

  G.W. Bailey

  Character, Texas, Oil

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. August 26, 2008.

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• But the 3% who have taken the time and exercised the discipline to decide on a destination and to chart a course sail straight and far across the deep oceans of life, reaching one port after another and accomplishing more in just a few years than the rest accomplish in a lifetime.

  Earl Nightingale

  Ocean, Taken, Years

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• Our guests have an insatiable curiosity for up close and personal worldwide adventures - whether one is taking a segment of the World Cruise or the entire voyage. Traveling to different countries aboard the luxurious floating resort that is Crystal Serenity is just one part of their experience. Our guests relish the opportunity to venture beyond the port cities to experience the destinations' culture, wildlife and unique treasures.

  Bill Smith

  Country, Adventure, Unique

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• No: until I want the protection of Massachusetts to be extended to me in some distant Southern port, where my liberty is endangered, or until I am bent solely on building up an estate at home by peaceful enterprise, I can afford to refuse allegiance to Massachusetts, and her right to my property and life. It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey. I should feel as if I were worth less in that case.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Government, Building Up

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.26, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Two, World, Estonia

  "To Have and Have Not". Book by Ernest Hemingway. Chapter 24, 1937.

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• You are leaving port under sealed orders and in a troubled period. You cannot know whither you are going or what you are to do. But why not take the Pilot on board who knows the nature of your sealed orders from the outset, and who will shape your entire voyage accordingly? He knows the shoals and the sand banks, the rocks and the reefs, He will steer you safely into that celestial harbor where your anchor will be cast for eternity. Let His almighty nail-pierced hands hold the wheel, and you will be safe.

  Peter Marshall

  Nature, Rocks, Hands

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• We are privileged that the dollar is the "currency of last resort" and the most important currency in the world. Global commodities are priced in dollars. Central banks in other countries hold great quantities of dollars. The dollar was the safe harbor, the port in the storm during the credit crisis.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Country, Important, Storm

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Port Security is one of our weakest security links, and it must be one of our highest priorities.

  Kendrick Meek

  Priorities, Links, Highest

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• It's a magical way to spend a summer - privacy at sea, and fun and friends in port.

  Ivana Trump

  Summer, Fun, Sea

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• Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Stars, Ocean

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• When its errands are noble and adequate, a steamboat bridging the Atlantic between Old and New England, and arriving at its ports with the punctuality of a planet, is a step of man into harmony with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Arriving, Noble

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.165

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• I am genuinely sorry for scientists of the younger generation who never knew Fisher personally. So long as you avoided a handful of subjects like inverse probability that would turn Fisher in the briefest possible moment from extreme urbanity into a boiling cauldron of wrath, you got by with little worse than a thick head from the port which he, like the Cambridge mathematician J. E. Littlewood, loved to drink in the evening. And on the credit side you gained a cherished memory of English spoken in a Shakespearean style and delivered in the manner of a Spanish grandee.

  Fred Hoyle

  Sorry, Memories, Wrath

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• What the English like to do is to face reality with a glass of port and a tear and fade off like Basil Rathbone into the sunset.

  Pete Townshend

  Sunset, Reality, Glasses

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• I'm originally from a town called Ipswich. I currently live in Newburyport. It's a port city, so I'm right on a river. It's really close to New Hampshire; I can pretty much throw a rock. I like where I'm from.

  Melissa Ferrick

  Rocks, Cities, Rivers

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• Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Should Have, Taxpayers, Fees

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• I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• [Students for a Democratic Society] was on many campuses and it was a powerful organization. It was founded by Tom Hayden, who passed away very recently. It was one of the founders of SDS and that chief writer of the Port Huron Statement, which is still worth reading. It's kind of the Bernie Sanders campaign document in a funny way.

  Bill Ayers

  Powerful, Reading, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• It was in Australia. I started in Cairns and went up to Cape Tribulation, Port Douglas and then went to Fraser Island. It was there that I thought was quite heavenly. I just decided to go back packing somewhere and that's where I picked. It was just before I got the role in Hot Chick. A friend wanted to me to go to Australia and I was thinking my career is just starting, it's not a good time to leave but she told me that my career would always be there and I was only going to get more immersed in it, and she was right. So it was a good time to go.

  Rachel McAdams

  Thinking, Islands, Careers

  Source: thefancarpet.com

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• You can get a coalition of senators from particular states in America, for example, who want to construct highways or dams or ports which may well be very inefficient. The taxes would be paid by the people over the whole country, but the benefits would go to the few people in those particular locations. This type of spending is a rather gross waste of resources that worsened over the years as the government has been allowed to do more particularized things.

  James M. Buchanan

  Country, America, Government

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Liberty, Danger, Restriction

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